and remember, kpix 5 partnering up with the red cross. 1-888-5-helps-u. . good morning to our viewers in the west. it is thursday, november 14, 2013. welcome to "cbs this morning." the official obama care numbers fall drastically short this morning both parties demanding answers. >> the mayor of the town flattened by typhoon haiyan tells his people to get out. seth is there with the rush to save millions. >> plus a new scandal for the secret service. fbi insider john miller on the bullet, hotel room and high ranking supervisors in trouble. >> we begin with today's eye opener your world in 90 seconds. >> just another day in a series of mess ups. you can't even tell what's going on here. >> a reality check for obama

care. >> after a full month of operations, 106,000 people made it through you the process. >> the overall number is 7 million by the end of march. >> if there weren't millions of people affected by this i'd feel sorry about this. >> two secret service officers removed from obama's detail for allegations of sexual misconduct. >> help is trickling in. >> the american aircraft carrier george washington arrive this is morning. >> it's survival of the fittest here. >> four marines are killed in southern california when artillery explode at camp pendleton. >> fellow passengers walk off the plane with them. >> 35 people did the right thing, got up and said no. >> the large sinkhole opened up in tampa. >> already swallowed a part of a home, boot and pool.

>> a truck accident deep down under. part of a vehicle raised causing lots of damage. >> all that -- >> next time you come face to face with an alligator don't feet it straight from your own might. >> put the gloves on him. we'll see who the tough guys are. this is the biggest problem during the delays. you have time to. i all that matters. >> mayor of toronto rob ford makes another shocking admission. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the past two years? >> yes, i have. >> "cbs this morning." >> mayor ford was caught eating a salad. >> presented by toyota. welcome to "cbs this morning." good morning norah. >> good morning to you charlie. >> we begin in washington where

new numbers reve big trouble for obama care. president barack obama will speak to reporter at the white house in 90 minutes expected to announce a fix to one of the biggest issue with the health care law, millions of americans who's old health care policies are cancelled. >> first official numbers came out yesterday. 20% of the people expected to enroll did. major garrett is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning norah and charlie and to our viewers out west. numbers confirm starkly the administration fears. the designed federal health care website starved the program of hundreds of thousands of potential customers. websites run by 14 states and district of columbia performed better. with enrollment numbers there's a bit of an unconventional definition. the administration said just over 106,000 americans signed up for obama care. some paid for an insurance policy while others put a you

plan in a virtual shopping basket, both counted fully enrolled. mitch mcconnel accused the white house of using enron accounting. mark rubio called the numbers a bis mal. less than a third of 27,000 navigated healthcare.gov success friday. the remainder, 80,000 signed up on websites run by 14 states and the district of columbia. this falls short of the half million obama care thought would sign up the first month. >> we should be further ahead. had we not had the disaster roll out of the website, i think we would be. >> the republicans said we told you so. >> indications that the affordable care act which i believe is the unaffordable care act is deeply flawed. >> health and human services

secretary kathleen sebelius says bigger numbers are ahead. the white house goal is the end of this month. it could slip. >> today we're confident on track to achieve that. if that changes, we'll certainly let you know. >> reporter: under questions from republican tray goutt, todd parks offered no guarantees. >> when will it be operational to your satisfaction? >> we have a goal that the team is pursuing with tremendous intensity. >> how many more weeks? i'm looking for a number. >> working hard to have the site functioning by the end of this month. >> reporter: there's another wrinkle in numbers, four times as many americans signed up for health insurance funded by the government signed up for private insurance. over time this could threaten the financial stability of the law. at 10:00 a.m. pacific, leaders travel to look for a fix for those in the individual market

that lost their policies but would like to keep them. >> also political director john dickerson. good morning. >> let's begin with numbers. what do they tell us and not tell us? >> they're as bad as everybody thought they'd be. in a sense, that's an old story. what the numbers don't tell us is sort of how the health of the website. if you look at number of applications that came through the federal system, a third came in on paper, old fashioned way. some numbers as small as they are don't tell us about the health of the website. we don't know about whether people are getting through the online system that handoff to the insurance companies. that is still a big problem and doesn't look like it's been fixed. secretary sebelius encouraged people to come back to the website because they think it's working much better now. that is either a sign of confidence or worry sm because people will come back and not have it work. >> perhaps more worries from the

president is democrats in his own party who have are in revolt and furious. senators said yesterday these problems are inexcusable and embarrassing. are they going to abandon the president with votes on capitol hill? >> it doesn't look like they're going to abandon him yet. here's what i gather from reporting on this. democrats, all of them, want to show they're doing something. they can't sit and wait for the end of november when the website is supposed to get fixed. they're angry two reasons. one the white house didn't listen in the advance of the launch of this website and now the answers they're getting are not fulfilling. they are not abandoning the whole enterprise, but they need to show they're doing something, putting pressure on the white house or coming up with something that looks like they're fixing it. they can't sit and hope for the best. >> what can they do, the white house, that they are not doing?

>> well, they can do one of two things. you see a little movement on the question of legislative fix. senior administration officials told me this morning they're open to some kind of legislative fix. that in part is because they're getting pressure. legislative fix that the white house doesn't like at all. it undermines the affordable care act. the white house is searching for administrative fix that they can basically put forward that would make these people whole. people having their insurance policies cancelled and find some way to make it work so they can keep those owe policies. the real danger is if you help those people too much, you remove the insen at thises to get in the system. getting into the seasonal is what they need to have happen for it to be healthy. >> thank you. we want to go now to the typhoon disaster. the aircraft carrier uss george washington arrived off the philippines this morning to help with recovery efforts. six days since the powerful

storm hit, desperate pleas for help as people try to sur vooi. 11 million people are in need. crowds of people working at airports trying to escape the destruction. seth is in the hard hit city of tacloban. >> reporter: good morning. this is a place full of so many questions as we drive through town. people ask us when will i have water, power, or food? the questions and discussion among people that live here is will you stay or will you go? the situation here is quite critical. aid is starting to trickle in. the relief effort in tacloban is now a 24 hour operation with the airport running at night for the first time since disaster struck. for days panic and desperation have gripped the city. the situation so dire it prompted the u.n. top relief official wednesday to plead for

more help. >> people are here are desperate who can't get anything to eat or don't have water. >> reporter: just outside the city, mobs stormed a rice warehouse collapsing a wall that crushed eight people to death. tacloban's government run hospital is on life support. the doctor told us they normally see 100 patients a day. since the typhoon, that has soared to a thousand. blood on the floor was hardly a concern. >> we don't have electricity, water, and of course food. >> how do you run a hospital if you don't have electricity, water and food? >> we have candles. >> you're doing hospital work by candlelight? >> yes, sir. >> we are using candles. >> now there's at least a generator. >> reporter: it's not enough to pow ter the lights on the shrin for the 4-year-old waiting to be

air lifted to a hospital to get surgery. her father told us i worry her wound is getting infected. if there were equipment and no blackouts here, maybe i'd be more comfortable. at least this hospital is functioning. this midwife from another remote clinic bought her nine month pregnant patient here. >> we're trying to help people. >> reporter: tacloban is beginning to bury some of the thousands of people who died. there was a ceremony today just outside the city at a mass grave. just a couple of hours ago, right on this hillside where i'm standing, more bodies were found. the grim story certainly continues. charlie, norah. >> seth in tacloban. the military is investigating the accidental death of four marines at camp pendleton north of san diego.

the marines were members of a mom disposal team and clearing the range of devices similar to what troops are doing in afghanistan. identities have not been released. the u.s. secret service is facing a sexual misconduct scandal. last year a dozen employees were caught up in the case in columbia. two agents on president's security detail are under investigation after an incident in washington. one a senior supervisor has been reassigned. >> the investigation focuses on an encounter at hay-adams hotel, next to the white house. senior correspondent john miller is here. good morning. >> good morning. >> tell me what you see and what you've learned about this incident. >> this incident is not a big story. the reason we're talking about it in terms of news is it violates three basic principles of the secret service. number one, don't do anything to embarrass the president or the

white house. number two, don't do anything to embarrass the service. number three, while you're waiting for the inspector general's report on whether the boys club culture, it would be good to not have incidents land in the paper. >> if you're a secret service agent or someone like that and it's legal to have a gun and you carry a gun, what are you supposed to do with the gun? >> there's nothing in the rule back about that. back up to the story. the secret service agent who's a supervisor on the president's detail, most elite unit in that organization, meets a woman in a bar that is across the park from the white house. ends up late that night in her hotel room. >> on duty or off duty? >> off duty. this starts off as a conversation you've had too much to drink. maybe you can stay up here. at some point he wakes up. there's a conversation with the

woman. here's the bit with the gun. if you're going to be drinking or going to be a sleep and with someone you don't know that well, you don't want them waking up and finding a loaded gun. drop the magazine, remove the rounds from the chamber. at some point late that night early morning she asked him to leave to go home. he gets half way out of the hotel and realizes he left the bullet in the room and goes back to get it. hang on. he enlists the help of the hotel people and says get into this room and recover this. the next day apparently she brings it to the front desk and says this guy left this. it ends up in the hands of the secret service that has to back through the story, who does this belong to? how did hit get there? >> he has been suspended by the secret service. >> i don't think he's been suspended. he's transferred off the president's detail. right now they're looking into

whether this was misconduct or just embarrassing. >> okay the inspector general's report is due out any time now. perhaps within weeks about the sex scandal that happened. what do we expect from that report? >> there's a draft of a draft of that report floating around. i think as people look at it, it's probably not as bad as they thought. one of the issues here -- what it says is there's nothing enbred into the secret service culture that says this is okay. it tooualks about people that travel around the world end up in hotel and so on. next week negotiations about the nuclear program. secretary of state john kerry is asking diplomacy to give pay chance. kerry is asking to hold off on efforts to impose tougher economic sanctions on iran. >> our hope is now you that no you new sanctions would be put

in place for the simple reason that if they are, it could be viewed as bad faith by the people we're negotiating with. it could destroy the ability to get an agreement. >> some are siding with israel. mark kirk said it was very unconvincing and fairly antiisraeli. the level of sanctions and financial pressure on iran is financianprecedented. iran is despite the attempt, iran's nuclear program continues to expand. we are looking how iran's leaders have inskirted. >> iran is the most sanctioned country in the entire world. that's devastated the economy. iran 's leaders have found ways to evade sanctions and have massed billions of in off the book investments that the u.s. government is now hunting down.

the sprooem lead erica m-- the leader controls everything in iran. he's been immune to sanctions that crippled the country thanks to a hidden economy that flourished under his rule. according to the treasury, khamenei funneled billions of for the 37 businesses that include clompanies, oil companies, banks. it's throughout yooireurope, mi east and africa. some fund the nuclear program. the former white house official and author of pressutreasury's spoke. >> controls investment vehicles and key elements of the infrastructure of the state, it

allows the clerical establishment and revolutionary guard to profit and make money and try to move and hyhide it a. >> in june they tried to shut it down. rey investment is worth $40 billion thanks to embezzled donations meant for religion. another company, known as tadbir hid in insurance companies and banks. that's where khamenei is said to put his own money. >> the cler establishment trying to raise and move money for their benefit and the development of a nuclear program. >> skeptics including the israeli government argue sanctions are not strong enough to force iran's leaders to halt the nuclear program. the obama administration defends itself saying existing sanctions

have slowed nuclear development and succeeded in bringing iran to the negotiating table. >> thanks. time to show you this morning's headlines. u.s.a today says u.s. is producing more oil than it imports. the white house credits the doubling of fuel-efficient say standards. the wall street journal says the confirmation hearing for yellen is getting underway this hour. yellen tells that the government is growing stron a thick fog settling in over the bay area this morning, delays at sfo on arriving flights up to 45 minutes-plus. for san jose we have clouds out there, as well. some of that thick fog dropping the visibility to less than a quarter of a mile. be very, very careful out on the roads. 40s and 50s now. but that fog will begin to lift. as it does, we'll see some sunshine, low 70s well inland. 60s inside the bay and upper 50s at the coast. a few more clouds on the way and cooler temperatures into the weekend.

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an industry worth billions. plus, humans are trying to outsmart volcanos. you'll see the first of its kind manmade ash cloud. find out why it could solve an expensive problem for the airlines. that's ahead. the controversy surrounding a toronto mayor rob ford is object growing this morning. the leader of north america's fourth largest city is admitting to smoking crack cocaine. now he's bringing more surprises to light. michelle wright has moring. >> he finally has more. now, new salacious details about the mail yore's behavior are emerging. the confessions continue for toronto mayor rob ford. he's admitting for the first time to buying illegal drugs. >> have you purchased illegal drugs in the last two years? >> yes, i have. >> reporter: at a city counsel meeting wednesday, members pressed the mayor to step down. >> you get to answer, mayor. >> i'm answering, but you don't

want to hear my answer. >> actually you're not being truthful. >> i'm not being truthful. have you been to that house? >> i have no interest of being in that house. i'm not a crack user. >> council members voted 37-5 to ask the mayor to take a leave of abscess but his brother doug pointed to hypocrisy to the group. >> have you ever smoked mann. >> counselor ford. >> don't come across that you're holier than,000. >> last week ford admitted for the first time to smoking crack cocaine after months of denials. >> yes, i have smoked crack cocaine. but am i an addict. no? >> last week video show add deranged ford threat cursing and threatening to kill someone. this came on the same day police

documents were released that described ford as a heavy drug user. staff said he consumed oxycontin and one said he was 80% sure the mayor had snorted cocaine. >> if you love toronto best, stop hurting it. >> reporter: as for the mayor's response? >> there's nothing else to say, guys. i really f'd up. >> reporter: he continued to insist he'll run for re-election next year. >> i'll be doing everything i've been doing for the last 13 years. returned calls, watching every dime, going to people's homes, and fighting for the little guy in the city. and if you want to carry this on, i can't stop you. >> reporter: and we should know that the city council does not have the power to remove the ourt tuesday he faced

families of the victim and they used words like rat, punk, and coward. >> think he was scared, afraid to turn around and see the massive people and all the families affected. i think he was scared. i think he was scared to face up. rickey klieman is leave. how will that affect how much time he spends in jail? >> reporter: theoretically it shouldn't affect how much time he's going spend in prison because under these guidelines the judge l death of his

sister deborah was not even proven. that they hadn't no finding that he had done it. nevertheless you heard steve davis had to be propped up by his wife as he told whitey bulger that he hoped he, too, died like his sister, gasping for breath. >> the question has always been when will he take the stand. he didn't. the question is when will he appear at sentencing. he didn't. to make a statement. will whitey bulger ever speak out on this in any way. >> i think much to my dismay, charlie, as you know and to the dismay of others, i think that whitey bulger will not speak out. and one of the people we heard from yesterday was the son of

roger wheeler who was legitimate businessman out of tulsa, oklahoma. and when his son got up to speak, as he held a picture, held it up of his father, and wanted to hear so much from whitey bulger because mr. wheeler told the fbi and the didn't of justice just as reresponsible for his father's death. whitey bulger refused to even look at these victims yesterday. he kept his hecht down. even when they asked. when teresa bond begged him to please look at her. >> what about the money? >> reporter: the money. the money, of course, will be out there somewhere. the question is will they find it. they seized $822,000 out of santa monica. the government has moved to forfeit that and the government will do what it will, perhaps give it to the families. that is hardly enough. they claim that there's $25 million out there plus in profited and they will go to try

to find it. >> all right, rikki. thank you. and the united states will take action today to ease the crisis in the animal world. at most just 650 el familiarities continue to roam the lands of africa. that's only half. last year alone 35,000 elephants were killed. the reason? profit from ivory tusks and carvings. >> today steps will be taken to literally try to smash the industry. barry petersen is at the refuge in commerce city, colorado. barry, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. this is just part of six tons of illegal ivory. it will be turned literally into this. bits and pieces. all on an effort to crack down. it is everything from tusks to

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they come in in in helicopters, with automatic weapons, with night vision goggles. >> mrs. clinton says every american has a stake in this. >> armed groups like those from sedan, al shabaab which you know is out of somalia which staged the terrible assault on the mall in nairobi recently, they use this illicit trade to fund their terrorist activities across after fridafrica. why would people do this, michelle? >> i think it's a simple way to earn money. >> reporter: the crooks are getting smarter. ivory exported before 1989 is still legal so they discolor tusk like this to make it look old, trying to fool inspectors.

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good morning. this overturned big rig accident continues to cause big delays on westbound 80. it is definitely our hotspot of the morning since the accident happened before 4:00. and now they have extended the estimated time when they are going to be able to re-open the slow lane until 9 a.m. for another hour or more. and you can see the delays back up towards the carquinez bridge. if you are looking for an alternate, 780 towards 680 in the benicia bridge is better. it's still slow though once you get into walnut creek. it is a foggy morning commute. we have seen an unusual number of accidents. some fog-related. this is a live look where visibility is a problem this morning coming into san francisco from marin county. and san mateo bridge traffic looks okay as you make your way towards the high-rise with a 19- minute drive time. ,,,,,,,,

♪ it is 8:00 a.m. in the west. welcome back to "cbs this morning." president obama will speak shortly at the white house. they'll announce a plan for millions of americans who are losing health insurance under obama care. a murder investigation targets a identical twin, even dna evidence proved to be a challenge. erin moriarty reports on the case that took eight years to solve. geoffrey rush is in studio 57. but first a look at today's eye eye opener @ 8." >> democrats all of them, want to show that they're doing something. they can't just sit around and wait for the end of november when this website is supposed to get fixed.

>> this is a place full of so many questions. as we drive through town people ask us when will i have water? when will i have power or food. >> after an incident in washington. >> they're looking into whether this was misconduct or whether this was just embarrassing. >> one young bull decided that he needed a sparring partner. this photographer. >> new salacious details about the mayor's behavior are emerging. >> i really f'd up. >> this is just part of the six tons of illegal ivory that later today will be taken to a rock crusher and turned into this, virtually worthless bits and pieces. jfk in some of the last moments of his life. a dallas jewelry salesman took pictures of kennedy right before he passed through dealey plaza. >> the department of hept and human services e-mailed americans encouraging them to give the obama care website

another try, but then they said, one at a time. because we don't want it to crash. i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. president obama will speak in about a half hour from the white house on his embattled health care law. cbs news will bring you his comments live. the president faces pressure after millions receive cancellation notices for their current coverage. >> new numbers show just how few americans have signed up for obama care. major garrett is at the white house briefing room. major, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, gayle, norah and charlie. the numbers are bad enough for the administration, but let's set those aside for a minute because the president's remarks are likely to deal with the biggest political problem the white house currently faces with the implementation of obama care. the president's oft repeated promise if you like your plan, you can keep it. that's proven not to be true. and it has created a political firestorm not just among republicans who have opposed

this law but the president's allies. senate and house democrats up in arms because they're hearing from their constituents that promise was broken. they're trying to fix that problem within the obama care law itself. the white house has spent the better part of the week looking for an administrative fix to alleviate this pressure and allow people to keep their health insurance plans if they prefer them. but there's pressure building to have a legislative remedy and the president will soon announce to the nation exactly what approach he's going to take to try to solve this problem. as for the numbers themselves, the white house always said those numbers would be low and, in fact, they have been. but the numbers problem is something the white house believes it can deal with. what it needs to do immediately is solve this problem with the individual insurance market. the president's going to try. charlie, back to you. >> cbs news will bring you the president's statements at around 8:35 pacific. the u.s. aircraft carrier is

off of the philippines as part of the global race to help typhoon victims. 11 million people are affected by the disaster. 22,000 people remain missing. the death toll is 2300 and will likely rise. in the city of tacloban 300 bodies were buried today in a mass grave. seth doane is in tacloban. >> reporter: the situation on the ground here, as you can imagine, continues to be dire. people are taking matters into their own hands. as we walked through the streets wee saw people who had severed lines for water to get drinking water. when we asked where that water was going, they told us it was going to government offices, even government officials. you see people as you go up and down the street just picking up debris, cleaning out homes that were water lost. we went through one home earlier today. i was asking what was inside this home. and people said, oh, it's not even hours. it floated here. we are beginning to see lines of

people waiting for food, but the question in some neighborhoods is where is the aid. this relief effort has become now a 24 hour a day operation with planes now landing through the night, but on the ground here you still have the very basic questions being asked, when will we get food. when will we get water and power. charlie, norah, gayle? >> seth doane in tacloban. passengers aboard a u.s. airways express flight staged an apparent revolt last night in support of a fellow traveler who is blind. they were about to take off but the crew returned the plane to the gate to remove the visually impaired passenger albert rizzi because his guide dog wouldn't stay under his seat. all the passengers including rizzi got off the flight and took a bus to new york. >> security comes on and they go to take this gentleman off the plane with his dog. so when we the passengers

realized what was going on, we were like, well, why is this happening? he's not a problem. >> i had 35 people who did the right thing, who got up and said no. these people, all of them, got on a bus and drove 3 1/2 hours from philadelphia. they could have stayed on the plane. but they chose not to. i'm so humbled. >> me, too. u.s. airways -- >> hurrah. >> it's so rare that people get on a bus when they're supposed to take a plane, but it shows you the humanity of people when they see something wrong. >> we're going to do the right thing and support this man. >> i love that story. next friday marks the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's assassination. the occasion is bringing a flood of documentaries about that day in dallas. none maybe like a program called "marching on 1963 army/navy remembered." it looks at a college football

game held after kennedy's death. >> after the president was assassinated, we were alerted that there was consideration being given to whether the game should be played at all. my own feelings were this is not about us now. it's about this grieving family, what they feel is appropriate. my teammates were ready to support whatever decision was made. >> everything was being canceled after john f. kennedy's death and the army/navy game being part of that, but jackie kennedy, bobby kennedy, the whole family just knew how much jack loved the army/navy game. >> jacqueline kennedy's opinion is what swayed the thing. she felt the president would want that game played, that that was important to him and therefore it was important to her and it was important to the country. >> she was the voice of the country at that point. so because of all that, it made it much more than just another

football game. in a sense, it was president kennedy's game. >> we felt then we want to play a game fit for a president. we had to celebrate his life. >> with the blessing of the first lady, the army/navy game was rescheduled for pearl harbor day, december 7th, 15 days after the assassination. organizers planned it as a solemn event, devoid of the game's customary fanfare. >> when i got out there, it was complete silence. and i never experienced that in a football game in my life. it was almost eerie. >> the cadets, the teams, the people that were being in attendance were still not sure how to act. it was still a strange feeling that they were still within this cloud of melancholy. >> but i will say that at that point, the kickoff took place and, quite frankly, i think

almost every athlete on that field and every person in that stadium put aside the mourning and focused on the game. >> jack ford, good morning. i watched it last night. you know what i learned? this was way more than a football game. over 100,000 people in the stands that day. >> what's interesting about this story, we've seen throughout history in times of crisis or tragedy, we reach out for something. something that can assure us that we'll be okay. oftentimes we embrace traditions and sports traditions. as you saw, the documentary talks about, we didn't know how to react. the nation was stunned. a sense of paralysis had taken over. jackie kennedy says jack would have wanted you to play this game, and it was the opportunity for the nation to embrace something that meant something to them. and to make them realize, you know what? we will be okay. >> you know, i love that point you made. like whether it was the saints winning the super bowl after katrina, the red sox after the marathon bombing. what was the connection between jfk and this game?

>> kennedy was an enormous fan of college football. he a he things he's most proud of, he was a navy guy. he was planning at being at this one. this one had all the trappings of an epic game. navy was number two in the nation. and you got to remember, army/navy was the national game back in the '60s and the '50s. there was no super bowl. army/navy was the game. and this game navy was number two in the nation. roger staubach, tom lynch was their captain. army had a powerhouse team. so the whole nation was looking forward to this game as was president kennedy. >> and who won? >> you know what? it is truly one of those thrilling games that goes down to the last second.

you're going to have to watch. >> jack ford, lawyer, anchor, correspondent, executive producer. >> jack ford now a producer. >> perfect husband, father. >> best college football game i've ever seen. recruited by army/navy. it stayed close to the people. wonderful for me to sit down and talk. >> the great thing, too, is jack kennedy was not a sentimental man. he was the man who would have wanted the game to go on. >> that's what the whole family said. it would have been important to him. because he would have realized the importance to the nation. >> you did a nice job, jack ford, in all the interviews. >> thank you very much. >> you can see it,,,,

a woman is a woman is killed and investigators spend nearly a decade on the hubt to solve a case full of mystery. >> i'm erin moriarty, "48 hours." identical twins in colorado are top suspects in the murder of

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the 2003 murder of a

colorado women baffled investigators for nearly a decade. prime suspect? her husband and his identical twin brother. that needs the only twist. as "48 hours kwnts correspondent erin moriarty reports, the kill was carried out with the help of watching a tv show. >> the police were saying they were doing what they could. after a while you wonder if they're going to do anything. >> reporter: rebecca barker was frustrated. years after her sister heather was murdered, there were still no arrests, even though rebecca was certain who was responsible. >> i knew he did something to her. >> you were sure it was dan. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: dan d dan dewild, a soon-to-be ex-husband. the two were in the middle of a bitter divorce when het stopped by with her children to pick up insurance cards. it was the summer of 2003. heather was never seen alive again. the kids, only 3 and 5 years old

couldn't say where their mother had gone. was there any sign of a murder weapon in the house? >> no, there was not. >> any blood? >> no, there was not. >> denver police detective mark kreider assisted in the investigation. >> any sign that heather had been in there or killed in there? >> no, there was no sign of that at all. >> reporter: six weeks after heather disappeared. a road worker discovered her body, bound with rope and wrapped in plastic bags. heather's death was ruled a homicide. investigators were convinced dan dewild was behind the killing and that he had help. his identical twin brother david. they were both living in the house where heather disappeared but there was zero physical evidence to connect them to her murder. >> let's be honest, detective. it really does look like they could have gotten way with it. >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: it took more than eight years but prosecutor

robert whiner was able to get a report. >> you don't know where she was. >> no. >> dan and david were boast arecollected for heather's murder and that's when the investigators learned how the two brothers had managed to erase all evidence of the crime. >> they were watching crime shows, the csi-type shows. any crime shows that they could watch and learn. so they double-gloved. they had two sets of gloves on because they didn't want to leave any trace evidence. they didn't want to leave blood. >> we've got nothing. >> with no evidence tying either man to the crime, investigators had to get one twin to turn on the other. would it mean a pact with the devil? >> ooh. erin moriarty joins us at the table. that's kind of creepy. and i like "csi."

i don't like it giving people ideas. >> i have to say i think people get ideas from all the show. it makes us think about "48." the one that disturbed me the most is they watched one. they knew they hid her once. it's the second time that you get blood splatter. they're wearing gloves. i had no idea you could trace scissors so they used razors. they thought each one of them did it. each twin was pointing the finger at the other but they have the exact same dna. so if you found dna at the scene, that's not helping you at all. >> very interesting. thanks. >> and you're a twin too. >> i am a twin. i know. i think that's one of the reasons why i picked this. i kept wondering, all right. if you have the exact same dna, do you have the same murderous instincts? are your thoughts the same? >> all right, erin moriarty. thank you.

you can see erin's report "the good morning, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. we're inside the kpix 5 studios where we're raising money for those people devastated by typhoon haiyan in the philippines. we have people on the phones but we need to get more active. call in, a small donation, whatever you can give, 1-888-5- helps-u. it all goes to the red cross to help the folks down the philippines. now, when stuff like this happens, a lot of people to step you have first are the chefs in san francisco. mineta white is on the phone now from 1300 on fillmore. can you pick that up for us, liam? do a little transfer here. mineta, tell us what some of the restaurants are doing in the city to help out. >> well, you know, the restaurants are very tight community and we always come together in need and this is a time where all the restaurants

and chefs are doing something to help the philippines. >> she has a gift certificate right there for 50 bucks and the next person that calls in and donates $200, you get a bonus. you will get a $50 gift certificate for 1300 on fillmore which is pretty good. >> chef david lawrence is always cooking up really good food, come on down. let's do it. let's get $200. >> $200 donation. by the way, with the exchange rate, multiply that by 40 turns into $2,000. let's take a look at the tally now. how much have we raised since 6:00 this morning? $31,048. thanks to all the fine folks here in the bay area. that's a wrap here. we'll have traffic and weather coming up after the break. ,, ,, ,,,,,,,,

good morning. right now, they are in the process of off-loading all that frozen food off the back of that overturned big rig that crashed early this morning. westbound 80 by pinole valley road. in the meantime they are still giving an estimated time when they will be able to re-open the slow lane at 9:00 so hopefully another half hour. in the meantime, traffic is jammed on west 80 from the carquinez bridge. highway 4 slowing towards franklin canyon. bay bridge backed up towards the overcrossings and the eastshore freeway commute 43 minutes from the carquinez bridge to the maze. ,,,,

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writes a novel but when she does, readers cannot get enough. only on "cbs this morning," she tells us about her newest work and why solitude is a key to her success. and geoffrey rush is in our toyota green room. he's one of the few actors to win a triple crown of awards. he'll tell us about his new role in the book "thief." that's ahead. but right now it's time to show you this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's "telegraph" says prince harry heads for the south pole on sunday. he and a team including wounded servicemembers gathered. others are competing in a charity race. remember we did a story on some of these guys. >> they need to finish the 200-mile trek before christmas. "the new york times" looks at the social chat. they snapped up a multi-million-dollar bid from facebook even though it doesn't make money. the service allows people to send messages that vanish after being seen. and the "washington post"

says a rogue gardner was recognized for his services. yep, recognized. during last month's government shutdown. you may remember this story. chris cox, an artist, took the time to mow the lawn of a closed lincoln memorial. yesterday he returned to washington where he was presented with a chain saw. the author donna tartt is beloved in the literary world, but she remains a mystery to many of her fans. she completes one novel every decade. her previous work including the secret history and then the little friend. we spoke with her for her only american television interview since the release of her newest novel. it has just been named amazon's best book of the year. >> the journey that i want to take the reader on always is the journey that i loved most when i was reading as a child, just this galloping grateful you don't know what's going to

happen next. >> at age 49, author donna tartt is one of the greatest american novelists of the past half century. her third and latest novel is "the goldfinch." an epic literary journey by a painting with the same name. >> why this painting? >> well, look at it. >> we brought tartt to the collection to see her inspiration first hand. >> this is not only the title of the book but i mean it becomes central. >> it's the guiding spirit of the book. it's the guiding spirit of the book. he's a ghost throughout the book. >> along with most of his key works, he was killed in a mafbs gunpowder explosion but the goldfinch survived. that event drives both tartt's narrative and purpose. >> one said you can see the doubleness in the painting. what does that mean? >> the doubleness means that you can see the painter's hand.

you can see the painter's brushstroke. it's a wonderful illusion, but yet if you get close enough, it falls apart into brushstrokes and think all truly great art has that doubleness. >> tartt knows what it makes at a young age. she was 28 when she published her first novel "the secret history." >> when it exploded onto the scene, what was that like for you? >> it was very disorienting because i wasn't expecting it at all, to write something that long in solitude, having -- you have to understand when you're a writer, there's no one coming in at the end of the day saying, wow, that's a great passage you wrote. that's wonderful. i didn't know how people were going respond to it. >> the only disappointment fans had was they had to wait a decade for her next book, "the little friend."

>> three novels. how many years invested in novels? >> about 30 years. they've been a decade each. >> how many books can you write? going at this slow pace. >> five would be good. >> five would be good. >> could you become prolific and get faster with effort? >> you know, i've tried to write faster and i don't really enjoy it. i don't enjoy the process of doing it. i've tried to speed up. i thought, well, i'll try to write -- maybe it was a mistake. i thought, i'll try to write a book in a year. didn't enjoy it at all. it wasn't for me. no fun for the writer, no fun for the reader. >> although tedious, her process works. at 800 pages, the goldfinch has been called a giant masterpiece that is heart-rending and irresistibly wicked. but it was stephen king who may have given the author her highest praise when he liken

heard work to her favorite author charles dickens. like dickens, his work goes beyond the thrill of the narrative. >> so what are you questioning with here? what is love? what else? >> what is love? what is the good life. >> what do you mean by that, the good life? and why is that interesting to you? >> well, the idea is -- there are many different issues. is the good life to be happy with oneself? personal happiness? is it to make people happy at the expense of one's own happenness? what is that for any of us? we all have to work that out on our own. >> what about for you? >> for me, two great salvations. love and work. >> me too. you got it. you can get love and work, life will be very good to you. >> love and work. >> i would only add health to that. love and work and good health. >> at 5 foot tall the mississippi native seems to move

through life on her own terms. she is at once delightful and peculiar and mysterious. >> do you like the mystery about you? what's important for me as a writer really is solitude. it's not so much reclusiveness as just a need to be alone when i work. when i am working, i am -- i do need to spend a lot of time alone. a life spent at one's desk is a life alone. >> and she wouldn't have it any other way. >> has the writer's light lived up to your hopes, dreams? >> to my wildest dreams. >> really. >> yes. >> more bigger, larger. >> better, happier -- >> a dream. >> yes. >> so what does that mean? what is the writer's life that is so satisfying for you? >> well, to be able to day dream

all day. write as book is one level deeper than that. writing a book is one level deeper than that. it's hard at times. it's hard going but when it geesd and going well, there's nothing like it. >> well, there it is. amazon's book of the year. a remarkable young woman who lives on a farm in virginia. an old farmhouse that she found. there's mystery, there's intrigue. >> that was a nice rapport between the two of you because she so rarely gives tin viewers. it was nice to see the back and forth. >> i'm looking forward to reading the book, all 800 pages. >> it's a good vacation book. >> absolutely. author geoffrey rush, he's here. we had fun with him. geoffrey rush has got a good sense of hue more in our photo booth in the toyota green room. we'll learn why he loves playing

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mmpa stands for major motion pictures of american. they're going to rate it an "r" because it pertains to profanities. we want you go to l.a. and have a word with them. >> when you say have a word with

them, i presume that word would be "bang." >> absolutely not. i don't want to start a diplomatic incident. >> that's judi dench spoofg her james bond role, trying to get the mmpa to change the rating of her movie. that campaign has paid off for mr. weinstein. the weinstein company says that filame "philomena" will now be rated pg-13 instead of "r." geoffrey rush is the only one to win an oscar and an emmy and a tony. his new book is about a fell low australian. he plays a german who takes in a foster daughter during world war ii. he teaches her among other things, how to read. what the hell is this? you stole it? >> sorry, papa. are you going to tell mama?

snopa pa? >> did anyone see you? let's make this our secret. we read it. >> thank you, papa. >> boy, geoffrey rush joins us at the table. hello. we should just say that this is a movie that really pulls on your heartstrings without being heavy-handed. would you agree? >> when my agents showed me the early screening, he said, i'm going to give this movie five handkerchi handkerchiefs. i thought, i've had the pleasure of sitting with a number of audiences in the last couple of weeks with gill screenings. we had a screening at the holocaust museum. quite diverse, different audiences. it just impacts on people at different points. that's what i love about it. you can never tell. this is the moment where people find a connection.

some people find it in the first three minutes. >> how much credit do you give though this young actress? >> well, she's 98% of the film. it's absolutely on her young shoulders. and working with her, it just shifted the goalposts of what i thought being an actor meant. >> what does that mean? >> well, she's 12 and we shot the film 10/13. she's had no previous training. she trained to be a gymnast to go to the 2016 olympics. that was her mad dream. she ended up in the film because she read the script and cried and thought maybe i should do this. she just has a natural rapport with a lens and with people, and this role is -- it's about a young foster child, illiterate,

grief-sticken, her mother is in nazi germany. i know it's heavy but people are coming out of film with great spark of hope because this girl carries this bright humanity because she learns to read. >> but every time we see the nazi flag for a lot of people, every time i saw it, i cringed just a little bit because in the movie not all the nazis were treated as monsters. it's clear some joined just to survive. they didn't really agree with the party line. they were just trying to survive. >> it all focuses on a small angle. if you remember from my generation, world war ii movies were always from the english elite. >> the german point of view. >> the germans smoked cigarettes upside down and there were stereotypes. in this movie you get to see ordinary people in ordinary towns. could be outland queens, outland

midwest. you know it's germany. >> you say it was a five-handkerchief, but when you read the script, what was your reaction? sniet was pretty >> it was pretty emotional because you know all the way through it's death raising in the whole story. there's going to be major deaths in this story and i'm getting to engage so much with these characters. please let it not be the girl. please let it not be this little boy. >> please. >> just don't let it be anyone. it's got such a powerful -- it's not an overt anti-war. it's just such a humane book about people. >> but, geoffrey, you're good in this movie too. we can't downplay that. you play off beat characters, drunks, rogue, rat bags.

>> i'm not a rat bag. that's the thing. when i read it, he seemed compared to that -- he seemed >> thank you. >> and you did. >> geoffrey rush. "the book thief" is in select theaters now and opens nationwide tomorrow. ,, the great american novel.

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about two or three days standing up in front of perfect strangers i was crying my eyes out and i realized that a lot of stuff that went on in my home with my dad abusing my mom affected me. so when we got to new york, my wife ali and i decided that we'd always do something for charity and youngsters, and she asked me what should we do, and i said how about domestic violence. it sort of caught her off guard because i never really talked about what was going on in my life as a youngster, and this just gave me the freedom to do it. so we put safe rooms in schools for youngsters where the kids dealing with abuse have somebody to talk about it with, whether it be their peers or a counselor and we've had terrific, terrific response. we've had thousands of kids come to our program in the last 10, 11 years. >> you can see more of mark's conversation with joe torre this

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good morning, i'm michelle griego at the kpix studios and we are real estate here. volunteers are right here waiting by the phone, waiting for your call, 888-5-helps-u, we are taking donations for the typhoon haiyan victims. kathleen joins us with the red cross. how important is this cause for people to dismait? >> it's incredibly important to donate? this is an effort by the red cross globally, the american red cross so far has committed $6 million to the relief efforts in the philippines, but god only knows what the final tally will be on the need. >>reporter: they're so immense, more than 600,000 people at this point we know are displaced and they have nothing. >> they have nothing, but the

red cross is there, american red cross and other organizations working with the philippines' red cross to get out people relief supplies, shelter, food, emergency medical treatment and santation, clean water. >>reporter: and some of those supplies you were talking about are the basics, right, food and water? >> just basics. that's what they need now and we're trying to get it to them as fast as possible. >>reporter: kathleen, we're going to try to get people ringing the phone, 888-5-helps- u so far. so far we've raised $5,000. keep those calls coming. we'll be right back.

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